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Jessup UltraGrip. UV is very expensive to get into, and surface printing the anti slip tape is VERY dangerous to the printer and the print heads, which if it's a quality machine, cost thousands. If your current or projected business model can't handle a $1,000-$5,000 mistake at any point, at a...

Hey hey. I have never used that product. Our product has always been direct to surface UV printed, as that's the best way to do it for presentation and image quality.

Absolutely acceptable, and as the youth say, a bop!

Well, if you figure out a better way to do something, have a ball! We very much exist in two different worlds, so our view points do not and do not need to line up. I've left you and anyone else who reads here a lot of very useful and valuable crumbs of information in relation to skateboards...

There's so many now! Thousands of different brands. It's a fun market. Love Vans, has been my shoe of choice for the last 5 years or so.

But the thing is, you don't need a more durable print for a street skateboards - they have a in service life expectancy of 2 weeks to 3 months for someone who is a regular, skilled skateboarder. When I speak on how the print feels in action, I truly just mean how the board slides on rails...

But when there’s a problem that doesn’t need fixed and anyone who knows how to use google can find the supplier who can print them the industry standard way cheaper than you can make them yourself, what’s the point - oh, and like I mentioned prior, you get a supplier when you buy the machine...

To the first comment, there may be a couple, but 99% of us all use the same tech and suppliers, or a re-fabrication of the same exact thing. It's all designed specifically to mimic the same reaction, how it feels to the skateboarder when they skate the skateboard. That goes back to my point way...

Okay. What you see in this video are 100% screen printed heat transfers. The full color ones are CMYK 4 color process (4 screens + 1 screen for white). These ones never touched a printer or a plotter. It's literally just a PET carrier sheet and screen printing ink (maybe that micro adhesive...

I guess, kinda! Like mentioned above, one of the companies I work with make their own in house without the use of anything but ink and the carrier sheet. The heat and pressure create a melting reaction between the surface of the ink and the surface of the skateboards clear coat. Some of the...

Here's a good video that shows the process, slowly.

And I am telling you, that this is an industry that's very large. Just about every skate shop sold in the world has it's heat transfer made from the same 3-5 facilities in China. We all use the same machine to apply the graphics, and we all use the same, or similar but acts the same, heat...

You're really over thinking this. I have tested all of these products, trying to find something that represents the wear and feel of the transitional skateboard transfer. None of them do. The ones that you feel like would work, end up leaving a gummy film because they're meant to stretch...

When I say ink-only heat transfer, it's REAL important that you understand what I mean. Only the ink is transferred to the surface. No vinyl, no pet, no this, no that, JUST ink. HTV, be it vinyl, pet, I do not care, they all have a carrier of some sort that transfers with the ink to the...

What you saw in that video is not HTV, it's the ink-only transfer I've been speaking about. I print my boards the exact same way. The man in that video is one of the most respected people in skateboarding, and runs one of the largest manufacturing companies in Mexico that produces for many...

It's a PET release film with inks screen printed or digitally printed on it, with a white layer screen printed the back that bonds to the skateboards surface when ran through the roller style heat transfer machine and the surface brought to the temp required by the specific release film used.

This is the wrong advice. Direct surface screen printing or ink-only transfer are the only means acceptable to the skateboard wholesale industry at-large. The company asking for heat transfer production, are asking for the pro-skateboard style transfers, this I can 99.9999999% promise. A...

Again, you are putting words in my mouth for whatever reason. The proper, current, and current best way to apply skateable graphics to a skateboards deck is an ink-only heat transfer. I'm not saying a skateboard graphic can't be printed 900 different ways. It can be screen printed, which some...

No, hydro dipped boards introduces moisture to the boards that alters the way they feel while riding. People do hydro dip for decoration purposes though, I've seen that. Same goes for direct surface sublimation, the amount of time and heat to even potentially get the ink to transfer would remove...

I think you are misunderstanding what the word professional means in this context. A PROFESSIONAL skateboard deck is made specifically for the purpose of long lasting, rigorous use as demanded by professional skateboarders. The skateboards sold in stores like walmart and target are beginner...